The Chinese are not resting on their laurels in their quest to dominate the global rail-technology industry: They have also set their eyes on the high-margin signaling business.
ING Group NV is looking to grab a major slice of the business opportunities arising from the outbound moves of Chinese companies and will accordingly expand its banking facilities in the country, a top official said.
Chinese property and investment firm Dalian Wanda Group is in exclusive talks to acquire World Triathlon Corp, the United States-based owner of the popular Ironman Triathlon franchise, for more than $850 million, according to a person familiar with the matter.
At a ceremony of remembrance in Hiroshima on Thursday, the city's mayor, Kazumi Matsui, made a renewed call for a nuclear weapons-free world.
'I cooked food for my mother, but when I went to give it to her she had died."
A CONFERENCE VENUE run by China Tobacco Corporation in Beijing recently prevented law-enforcement officials from the capital's public health supervision bureau from entering the premises. This is the first case of its kind since Beijing implemented a strict tobacco-control law on June 1. Comments:
A POLICE STATION IN LOUDI, Central China's Hunan province, reportedly rebuked the local civil affairs bureau on Wednesday for demanding that a 68-year-old resident obtain a redundant police certificate when she applied for a new senior citizen pass.
THE BBC DOCUMENTARY Are Our Kids Tough Enough, which filmed an experiment in which five Chinese teachers taught 50 children at a school in the United Kingdom with the teaching methods used in China, has sparked heated debate about whether Chinese or Western teaching methods are better. Comments:
Some people often ask what China wants from the world, what it brings to the world and whether it will challenge the US-dominated word order. For a country that was issuing food coupons as late as 1993, such questions are too early.
For decades, illegal immigration has been testing the emotion of Britons, whether it was through the flood of Vietnamese boat people heading for the then UK-controlled territory of Hong Kong, the plight of illegal Chinese immigrants picking cockles in northwest England, or the thousands of people risking all in Calais to get to Britain.
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